CSET Spanish Subtest 2 | 100%
Correct Answers | Grade A+
• What are the characteristics of Modernism (1888-1910)? There are 10.
-✓✓1. Loneliness
2. Sensuality
3. Defense of Indigenism
4. Harmony
5. Exoticism
6. Fine Materials
7. Mythological
8. Sayings/Gallicism
9. Aristocratic
10. Change of meter
• Who was the most important modernist? Where was he from? -
✓✓Ruben Dario Nicaragua
• This type of writing Gained popularity in mid-13th Century w/ Alfonso
X -✓✓Spanish Prose
• The last great poet of middle ages. Wrote Coplas a la muerte de su
padre. -✓✓Jorge Manrique
• First to introduce Sonnet into Spanish Literature -✓✓Iñigo López de
Mendoza
• Facts of Juan Ruiz -✓✓1. Castilian Poet
2. 14 Century
3. Writer of (Libro de un Buen Amor)
4. Mester de Clerencia
,• Facts of Alfonso X (The Wise) -✓✓1. Translation of works from
Arabic to Latin.
2. Vernacular of Castle
3. Use of Castilian
4. Prolific Author (Writer) of 300 Poems.
5. Gacilian
• Father of Spanish Prose. King of Castile and Leon. -✓✓Alfonso X
(1252-1284)
• Mester de clerencia -✓✓Intend for instruction, didacticism and
erudition
13 Century.
• Facts of Cantar de Mio Cid -✓✓1. Real man, battles, conquests,
2. 1140
3. Realism
4. No super natural beings
5. 14 silabas
6. Mester de Juglaria
• Arte menor -✓✓Verses of 8 or less
• Arte mayor -✓✓Verses of 9 or more syllables
• Tamales are also called -✓✓humitas
• Sancocho/guisado -✓✓stew
• What is corn called in Andean countries? -✓✓el choclo
• What is cooked on a comal (griddle)? -✓✓tortillas
,• Machu Picchu was discovered again in the year -✓✓1911
• A device used to make tortillas (a flat or slightly hollowed oblong
stone on which materials such as grain and cocoa are ground using a
smaller stone.) -✓✓un metate
• The indigenous of Mesoamerica thought that the Creators made people
out of which food? -✓✓Corn (Maíz)
• La Epifanía is celebrated on what day? It's also known as what? Who
do kids think bring them presents? -✓✓6th of January. The Feast of the
Magi Kings. The 3 kings.
• Día de los muertos is celebrated on what day? -✓✓2nd of november
• The Inca lived along which mountain range? How many countries did
they inhabit? -✓✓The Andes. 4 (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, y Chile)
• La cordillera blanca can be found in which country? -✓✓Perú
• The Iglesia de San Francisco de Quito is in which country? -
✓✓Mexico
• A popular Peruvian dance that is danced accompanied by
clapping/applause. The dresses vary only slightly from those used in
flamenco. -✓✓la marinera
• "Segunda carta de relacion" and "Vision de los vencidos" are works
from what literary period? -✓✓Colonial literary movement
• This term refers to the literature during the age of Spanish colonization
of the Americas. -✓✓Colonial
, • ____________ was the only religion allowed in South America the
colonial era, the indigenous were forced to abandon their beliefs,
although many did not abandon it at all, for example, countries with
predominantly Amerindian population such as ________ and _______
there is a syncretism between indigenous religions and the Catholic
religion, that has occurred since colonial times. In Brazil or Colombia,
Catholicism was mixed with certain _________ rituals. -
✓✓Catholicism. Bolivia. Peru. African
• __________ ______________ is the dominant religion in South
America. -✓✓Roman Catholicism
• The tango lived on in smaller venues until its revival in the 1980s
following the opening in Paris of the show ________ ______________ ,
The Broadway musical Forever Tango, and in Europe Tango Pasión. -
✓✓Tango Argentino
• Tango is dance, ______, and _______. -✓✓Music and poetry
• Tango has roots in ______ and _____ culture. Dances from former
_______ helped shape the modern tango. -✓✓African and European.
Slave
• In 1917, folk singer Carlos _________ recorded his first tango song Mi
Noche Triste, forever associating tango with the feeling of tragic love as
revealed in the lyric. -✓✓Gardel
• Tango comes from __(city and country)___ and __(city and
country)___, having an influence on both sides of the Rio de la
___________. -✓✓Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay.
PLATA. European and South American Immigrants all brought their
music with them.
Correct Answers | Grade A+
• What are the characteristics of Modernism (1888-1910)? There are 10.
-✓✓1. Loneliness
2. Sensuality
3. Defense of Indigenism
4. Harmony
5. Exoticism
6. Fine Materials
7. Mythological
8. Sayings/Gallicism
9. Aristocratic
10. Change of meter
• Who was the most important modernist? Where was he from? -
✓✓Ruben Dario Nicaragua
• This type of writing Gained popularity in mid-13th Century w/ Alfonso
X -✓✓Spanish Prose
• The last great poet of middle ages. Wrote Coplas a la muerte de su
padre. -✓✓Jorge Manrique
• First to introduce Sonnet into Spanish Literature -✓✓Iñigo López de
Mendoza
• Facts of Juan Ruiz -✓✓1. Castilian Poet
2. 14 Century
3. Writer of (Libro de un Buen Amor)
4. Mester de Clerencia
,• Facts of Alfonso X (The Wise) -✓✓1. Translation of works from
Arabic to Latin.
2. Vernacular of Castle
3. Use of Castilian
4. Prolific Author (Writer) of 300 Poems.
5. Gacilian
• Father of Spanish Prose. King of Castile and Leon. -✓✓Alfonso X
(1252-1284)
• Mester de clerencia -✓✓Intend for instruction, didacticism and
erudition
13 Century.
• Facts of Cantar de Mio Cid -✓✓1. Real man, battles, conquests,
2. 1140
3. Realism
4. No super natural beings
5. 14 silabas
6. Mester de Juglaria
• Arte menor -✓✓Verses of 8 or less
• Arte mayor -✓✓Verses of 9 or more syllables
• Tamales are also called -✓✓humitas
• Sancocho/guisado -✓✓stew
• What is corn called in Andean countries? -✓✓el choclo
• What is cooked on a comal (griddle)? -✓✓tortillas
,• Machu Picchu was discovered again in the year -✓✓1911
• A device used to make tortillas (a flat or slightly hollowed oblong
stone on which materials such as grain and cocoa are ground using a
smaller stone.) -✓✓un metate
• The indigenous of Mesoamerica thought that the Creators made people
out of which food? -✓✓Corn (Maíz)
• La Epifanía is celebrated on what day? It's also known as what? Who
do kids think bring them presents? -✓✓6th of January. The Feast of the
Magi Kings. The 3 kings.
• Día de los muertos is celebrated on what day? -✓✓2nd of november
• The Inca lived along which mountain range? How many countries did
they inhabit? -✓✓The Andes. 4 (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, y Chile)
• La cordillera blanca can be found in which country? -✓✓Perú
• The Iglesia de San Francisco de Quito is in which country? -
✓✓Mexico
• A popular Peruvian dance that is danced accompanied by
clapping/applause. The dresses vary only slightly from those used in
flamenco. -✓✓la marinera
• "Segunda carta de relacion" and "Vision de los vencidos" are works
from what literary period? -✓✓Colonial literary movement
• This term refers to the literature during the age of Spanish colonization
of the Americas. -✓✓Colonial
, • ____________ was the only religion allowed in South America the
colonial era, the indigenous were forced to abandon their beliefs,
although many did not abandon it at all, for example, countries with
predominantly Amerindian population such as ________ and _______
there is a syncretism between indigenous religions and the Catholic
religion, that has occurred since colonial times. In Brazil or Colombia,
Catholicism was mixed with certain _________ rituals. -
✓✓Catholicism. Bolivia. Peru. African
• __________ ______________ is the dominant religion in South
America. -✓✓Roman Catholicism
• The tango lived on in smaller venues until its revival in the 1980s
following the opening in Paris of the show ________ ______________ ,
The Broadway musical Forever Tango, and in Europe Tango Pasión. -
✓✓Tango Argentino
• Tango is dance, ______, and _______. -✓✓Music and poetry
• Tango has roots in ______ and _____ culture. Dances from former
_______ helped shape the modern tango. -✓✓African and European.
Slave
• In 1917, folk singer Carlos _________ recorded his first tango song Mi
Noche Triste, forever associating tango with the feeling of tragic love as
revealed in the lyric. -✓✓Gardel
• Tango comes from __(city and country)___ and __(city and
country)___, having an influence on both sides of the Rio de la
___________. -✓✓Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay.
PLATA. European and South American Immigrants all brought their
music with them.
